Simple blood test every five years could be enough to detect prostate cancer gjsentinel.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gjsentinel.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A simple blood test that checks for prostate-specific antigen (PSA), a marker for prostate cancer, is safe and sufficient, if done at intervals of every five years, finds a study on Saturday.
Prostate cancer screening has long been contentious. While the PSA test is useful for assessing risk, it's notorious for false positives prompting unnecessary invasive treatments and false negatives resulting in undetected cancers